Adjustable barrel-cover



S. E. O'RAGER. ADJUSTABLE BARREL COVER.

Patented Apr. 30, 1889.

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(No Model.)

Iva 4021144.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL E. CRAGER, OF XVIGHITA, KANSAS.

ADJ USTABLE BARREL-COVER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 402,144, dated April 30, 1889.

Application filed February 19,1889- Serial No. 300,427. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL E. ORAGER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Wichita, in the county of Sedgwick and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Barrel-Covers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings, and the letters and figures of reference thereon,forn1ing a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the cover, representing it as it would appear when applying it to a barrel. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the cover; andFig. 3 is a central crosssectional view of thecover, showing only the central portion.

This invention relates to certain improvements in an adjustable screen-cover adapted to cover display barrels, tubs, pails, and the like in a store or other place, and is so constructed, with a springband flexibly c0nnected with the screen-cover, as to adapt itself to barrels, tubs, 0r pails of various sizes, and thus one-size of cover will accommodate all the various sizes of display barrels, tubs, or pails a Storekeeper may chance to have.

Referring to the drawings, R represents a ring or hoop, and S represents a screen secured at its edges to said hoop, thus forming the cover proper.

D represents a coil-spring band, and G 0 represent chains arranged at suitable intervals about said hoop, connecting the said hoop with the said spring-band, supporting said band a distance below the cover, adapting it to clamp the barrel below a convenient hoop, and to accommodate various distances said chains may be taken up orlet out to suit cirbe of a diameter suitable to fit the smallest display barrel, tub or pail. NVhenthe cover is applied to a barrel or other object larger than the normal diameter of band D, as shown in Fig. 1, the band is expanded by stretching it about the barrel in the manner represented in said figure.

Referring particularly to Fig. 3, the normal diameter of the spring-band D is shown in the full lines, wherein the chains 0, which flexibly connect it with the hoop R, adapt themselves to such diameter, and the dotted lines of said figure represent the position of said band and chains when the band is expanded.

The object of this invention is to provide an adjustable cover for display barrels, tubs, pails, and the like, for the purpose of preventing persons from taking from the barrel or other receptacle that which is on display, and at the same time providing a convenient removable cover, so that the storekeeper may readily attain access to the barrels contents by removing the same.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The barrel-cover consisting of the combination of the screen-cover R S, the coilspring band D, and the chains 0, connecting said cover and band, substantially as and .for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, with a barrel-cover consisting of a screen or netting, of the adjust-able spring-band D, and flexible connections connecting said cover with said band, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

SAMUEL E. CRAGER.

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